Tikkun Olam is currently planning for 2025. Our goal is to help make our community a better place by offering assistance to people in need, our number one priority. If you have ideas, know of local organizations that align with our goals, or want to participate in the Tikkun Olam group, please email ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Veronica Kaliski chair of the group.
When my sister in Israel mentioned she would stop in New York on her way to our nephew’s wedding in Cartagena, Colombia, she casually noted that her trip coincided with the upcoming inauguration of the returning President, Donald J. Trump. Attending a presidential inauguration had never crossed my mind before. But recognizing how rare and special this moment could be for my sister and brother-in-law, I decided to try to make it happen. I reached [...]
It’s February, the month on the Gregorian calendar to celebrate love. Yes, I am aware that Valentine’s Day, observed on February 14, traces its origins to Christian martyrdom. In the third century, Emperor Claudius II Gothicus of Rome arrested a priest named Valentine for defying a Roman decree that forbade soldiers from marrying. Alas, poor Valentine, beheaded in the name of love. And there did he lie, poor fellow, alone, unrecognized, unheralded for his sacrifice, [...]
In November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to assign January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day that marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most infamous and deadliest concentration camps of the Holocaust. The date serves as a day to honor the victims of Nazism and promote Holocaust education throughout the world. U.N. Resolution 60/7 strictly rejects any form of Holocaust denial, encourages member states to preserve sites [...]
Rabbi Gadi led a standing-room-only gathering of Peconic Landing residents to usher in the first night of Hanukkah on Dec. 25. More than 50 members of the facility’s Jewish population plus other interested residents, and even members of our shul who had heard about the event, turned out to be a part of one of the first Hanukkah events in recent memory to be held at the facility. As a Christmas tree glistened in the [...]
Once again, our shul has shown its generous spirit by filling the big red barrel with toys and games and fun crafts for kids. All was delivered to CAST in time for gift-giving and fun times for kids at Christmas. CAST clients were most grateful, said Veronica Kaliski, chair of the Tikkun Olam committee at our shul, the group that responds to those in need on behalf of the shul. Among other initiatives, the group [...]
Given the high cost of airline tickets to Israel and limited flights as a result of the current situation, rather than traveling there to present at a conference, I opted to stay closer to home and send a recorded presentation I had given at Columbia University a week earlier. Instead, I headed to Washington, D.C., where I’ve been invited each year to participate in a bipartisan Hanukkah celebration at the Library of Congress. This year, [...]
Happy New Year. The word of the year is brain rot. I thought you might want to know that. I hope the word does not reflect accurately on any of you. The Oxford University Press, publisher of the august OED, the Oxford English Dictionary, has chosen “brain rot” as its word of the year. “It was quite a journey for brain rot,” The New York Times said, the word having triumphed over contenders that included [...]
Once again, our shul has shown its generous spirit by filling the big red barrel with toys and games and fun crafts for kids. All was delivered to CAST in time for gift-giving and fun times for kids at Christmas. CAST clients were most grateful, said Veronica Kaliski, chair of the Tikkun Olam committee at our shul, the group that responds to those in need on behalf of the shul. Among other initiatives, the [...]
Dear members and friends, This is the fifth year I am asking you to support our High Holiday Matching Gift Campaign. However, the urgency is significantly greater this year, given the threats at home and worldwide, and the cost those threats generate for our synagogue. Our annual campaign raises leadership gifts from our congregants in sums of $10,000, $5,000, $2,500 and $1,250, which make it possible for us to match your gifts 2:1, and [...]
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